Zeke&tiki
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- 1/28/18
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- Jess Potter
hi guys!
I'm a new member and I'm urgently seeking some advice from people who have successfully been able to get their bird to stop screaming.
I've spent so much time and money trying to get my little guy to stop screaming and nothing has worked, and I feel like I'm at the crisis point now.
I have a DNA sexed made scaly breasted lorikeet, named Zeke (about 1.5 yrs now) who has severe need for constant attention.
I use to be home 5 days a week, I always had him out of the cage as to avoid him screaming at me .... Now I work full time and the screaming issue is so much worse.
He still comes out every evening for about 2 hours and has regular toy rotations, fresh fruit, veg and Lori wet and dry everyday.
We even bought new cages to try, different locations in the house, putting him by window to talk to outside lorries, his cage is always covered on 3 sides, and after much thought I even went and bought another DNA sexed male lorikeet as a companion. The second lorikeet was kept in a seperate cage right up against zekes' they were getting along (didn't help with zekes screaming but) so after a while I let them meet/touch etc and Zeke established dominance but they didn't fight, so over a few weeks they are now in the same large cage together without issue.
So great, he has a friend now who I named Tiki - he should start to bond with this bird and quiet down. NOPE!! He ignores Tiki (who is amazing and quiet) and just screams no different from before!!
The screaming is non stop loud, he will go for a good hour or more before taking a short break if he knows you are home. He listens for your footsteps in the house and as soon as he knows your there it starts!! So morning, night and weekends if I don't want him out I have to be silent, if I don't want to bear screaming, before giving in and putting him in a dark place.
At night we have to put him in the back bedroom with blinds shut, dark cover so there is no light. This is the only way we can sleep past 5am - because he doesn't make normal happy bird wake up noice at first light he just screams to wake you up, then your greeted with 'Hello, hello' from one very excited bird.
When in the dark room and he is being quiet Often I get him out and take him in for a shower, then give him some apple etc while making up his foods for the day, but he has to be ON YOUR HEAD OR IN YOUR FACE while he is out of the cage, you can't just sit him on the play stand (not even one second) as he flys over as soon as you go to walk away. Then he gets popped back in cage (goes in without any issues) with all of his foods, then I put him by a window and proceed to get ready for work....but he is screaming again
The only way to stop him screaming while in his cage is to cover him and make the cage dark. Which is horrible and I feel really crap for doing that. Unfortunately I have resorted to doing this (once I put food, and him if I had time to get him out, in the cage) until the moments leading up to when I leave for work...then I roll the cage back out to a window. So as you can imagine a fair chunk of my morning is dedicated to managing the bird for my own sanity.
When talking about nights and weekends I try Having him in quiet common areas, but if your not right in front of the cage he screams and it echoes through the house. I try the window, just screams which pisses off the neighbours, I try in a quiet room, he just screams and screams till you lose your shizz after an hour and come in to cover him. He will be quiet sometimes when he is in a quiet room, however I have to be as silent as a mouse.
I don't scream back to him as it makes it worse (very occasionally I lose my shizz and scream back), I give him ample amounts of different textured toys, foods he likes and baths. He is happy to play with toys if I'm watching him (within 1 meter of cage, and loves to eat his food when you put it in cage - he is quiet then for about 5 mins until our walk away) He is lice sprayed, has no health issues, super glossy, gets attention for a few hours every night and sometimes in the morning, even got 3 new cages to see if that would help and now has a new friend.
He is only happy when he is out of cage ON me, doing his tricks and eating while I'm near him. He sees me as his bonded mate but I can't keep this up.
I'm really at a breaking point as he is so georgeous and sweet, but his constant need for attention is killing me. I feel I had tried everything and I don't know what to try/do next.
His wings are not clipped as I like him to be able to have a little fly when he comes out, however I am considering clipping them in a bid to force him to stay on his forever changing play stand when out of his cage, which is loaded with different berries, fruits, toys, branches etc. he's not scared of anything, very hand raised with lots of dance moves, good speech and has a massive personality.
Please help if you can!!!
I'm a new member and I'm urgently seeking some advice from people who have successfully been able to get their bird to stop screaming.
I've spent so much time and money trying to get my little guy to stop screaming and nothing has worked, and I feel like I'm at the crisis point now.
I have a DNA sexed made scaly breasted lorikeet, named Zeke (about 1.5 yrs now) who has severe need for constant attention.
I use to be home 5 days a week, I always had him out of the cage as to avoid him screaming at me .... Now I work full time and the screaming issue is so much worse.
He still comes out every evening for about 2 hours and has regular toy rotations, fresh fruit, veg and Lori wet and dry everyday.
We even bought new cages to try, different locations in the house, putting him by window to talk to outside lorries, his cage is always covered on 3 sides, and after much thought I even went and bought another DNA sexed male lorikeet as a companion. The second lorikeet was kept in a seperate cage right up against zekes' they were getting along (didn't help with zekes screaming but) so after a while I let them meet/touch etc and Zeke established dominance but they didn't fight, so over a few weeks they are now in the same large cage together without issue.
So great, he has a friend now who I named Tiki - he should start to bond with this bird and quiet down. NOPE!! He ignores Tiki (who is amazing and quiet) and just screams no different from before!!
The screaming is non stop loud, he will go for a good hour or more before taking a short break if he knows you are home. He listens for your footsteps in the house and as soon as he knows your there it starts!! So morning, night and weekends if I don't want him out I have to be silent, if I don't want to bear screaming, before giving in and putting him in a dark place.
At night we have to put him in the back bedroom with blinds shut, dark cover so there is no light. This is the only way we can sleep past 5am - because he doesn't make normal happy bird wake up noice at first light he just screams to wake you up, then your greeted with 'Hello, hello' from one very excited bird.
When in the dark room and he is being quiet Often I get him out and take him in for a shower, then give him some apple etc while making up his foods for the day, but he has to be ON YOUR HEAD OR IN YOUR FACE while he is out of the cage, you can't just sit him on the play stand (not even one second) as he flys over as soon as you go to walk away. Then he gets popped back in cage (goes in without any issues) with all of his foods, then I put him by a window and proceed to get ready for work....but he is screaming again
The only way to stop him screaming while in his cage is to cover him and make the cage dark. Which is horrible and I feel really crap for doing that. Unfortunately I have resorted to doing this (once I put food, and him if I had time to get him out, in the cage) until the moments leading up to when I leave for work...then I roll the cage back out to a window. So as you can imagine a fair chunk of my morning is dedicated to managing the bird for my own sanity.
When talking about nights and weekends I try Having him in quiet common areas, but if your not right in front of the cage he screams and it echoes through the house. I try the window, just screams which pisses off the neighbours, I try in a quiet room, he just screams and screams till you lose your shizz after an hour and come in to cover him. He will be quiet sometimes when he is in a quiet room, however I have to be as silent as a mouse.
I don't scream back to him as it makes it worse (very occasionally I lose my shizz and scream back), I give him ample amounts of different textured toys, foods he likes and baths. He is happy to play with toys if I'm watching him (within 1 meter of cage, and loves to eat his food when you put it in cage - he is quiet then for about 5 mins until our walk away) He is lice sprayed, has no health issues, super glossy, gets attention for a few hours every night and sometimes in the morning, even got 3 new cages to see if that would help and now has a new friend.
He is only happy when he is out of cage ON me, doing his tricks and eating while I'm near him. He sees me as his bonded mate but I can't keep this up.
I'm really at a breaking point as he is so georgeous and sweet, but his constant need for attention is killing me. I feel I had tried everything and I don't know what to try/do next.
His wings are not clipped as I like him to be able to have a little fly when he comes out, however I am considering clipping them in a bid to force him to stay on his forever changing play stand when out of his cage, which is loaded with different berries, fruits, toys, branches etc. he's not scared of anything, very hand raised with lots of dance moves, good speech and has a massive personality.
Please help if you can!!!